Business Statistics 3E , Black, 2000 A Abbott Mead Vickers, 44 Absolute zero, 7 Acceptance sampling, 767-773    consumer's risk, 769    determining error, 768-770    double-sample plan, 767-768    ethical considerations, 776    multiple-sample plan, 768    operating-characteristic curve, 770-772    producer's risk, 769    single-sample plan, 767    Type I error, 768-770    Type II error, 768-770 Additive law of probability, 97-105    complement of a union, 102-103    general law of, 97-99    probability matrix, 99-103    special law of, 103-105 Adjusted R2, 521-522 Advanced exponential smoothing, 645 Advantage, 41 Advertising agencies, 44    risk-taking by, 721 After-process quality control, 739 Agri-business time-series database, 12 Airline passengers, 153 Airline ticket costs, 703 Alamo, 41 Allianze, 60 All possible regressions, 549 Alpha, 287-288    ethical considerations, 326    p-value method, 294    relationship to beta, 288 Alphatronix, 733 Alternative hypothesis, 285-286    chi-square goodness-of-fit test, 672    chi-square test of independence, 682    choosing and Type II error, 320    Friedman test, 713    Kruskal-Wallis test, 709    Mann-Whitney U test, 693    multiple regression analysis, 516    one-tailed test, 289-290    one-way analysis of variance, 395    randomized block design, 416    runs test, 689, 690    two-way analysis of variance, 428    Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test, 701 Analog models, 456 Analysis of variance (ANOVA)    assumptions underlying, 396-397    completely randomized, 394-406    defined, 393    factorial design, 426-443    multiple comparison tests, 406-414    one-way, 394-406    two-way, 426-443 Andersen Worldwide, 55 A posteriori, 407 A priori, 89, 407 Area sampling, 219-220    advantages of, 220    disadvantages of, 220    two-stage sampling, 220 Arithmetic mean, 40-41. See also Mean Asatsu, 44 Association    correlation, 489-493    covariance, 493-494 Australia, 48 Autocorrelation, 646-650    addition of independent variables, 650    defined, 646    Durbin-Watson test, 647-650    first-differences approach, 650    first-order, 647    MINITAB, 667    transforming variables, 650    ways to overcome, 650 Autoregression, 651-652    defined, 651 Averaging models, 636-640    moving averages, 638-639    simple average model, 636-638    weighted moving averages, 639-640 Avis, 41 AXA-UAP, 60 B Backward elimination, 554-555 BankAmerica, 46 Banking industry, national ideology and performance, 413 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, 46 Base period for index numbers, 594 Bayes, Thomas, 119 Bayes' rule, 119-122, 804    total probability formula, 120    tree diagram, 121 BDO Seidman, 55 Belgium, 48 Bell-shaped curve, 71-72, 180 Benchmarking, 741    ethical considerations, 776 Berends, Boyd, 451 Berg, Steven, 662 Beta, 288    relationship to alpha, 288 Bimodal, 38 Binomial distributions, 137-147    approximating by Poisson distribution, 154-155    assumptions of, 137-138    binomial tables for, 141-142    combinations, 139    compared to Poisson distributions, 148    computer for, 142-143, 170    defined, 137    ethical considerations, 160    Excel, 142-143, 170    formula for, 140    graphing, 145-146    hypergeometric distributions compared to, 158-159    mean of, 144    MINITAB, 142-143, 170    normal curve to work problems of, 191-195    replacement and, 137    sample size and, 138    solving problems of, 138-141    standard deviation, 144 Blocking variables, 415 BMW, 46, 208 BNP-SG-Paribas, 46 Booth, David, 536 Bounds, 271 Box and whisker plots, 72-75    defined, 72    hinges, 73    inner fences, 73    MINITAB, 86    outer fences, 73    outliers, 73    skewness, 74    uses of, 73-74 Brazil, 48 Brouthers, L., 413 Bruskin-Goldring Research, 109 Brzozowski, Leonard, 780 Budget, 41 C Canada, 48 Carlson Marketing Group, 44 Car rental companies, 41 Cause-and-effect diagrams, 748-749    MINITAB, 783-784